Hey, chess lovers! We are well into July already, which means it's high time to review last month's developments, as well as the latest numbers from our Fairplay and Support teams. Let's dive into June 2021... Web Fully released the new Da...
The main event of the 2021 Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, where the world's best young players are competing for a $35,000 prize fund, is underway. Additionally, the record for youngest grandmaster in history was just set by IM Abhiman...
The 2021 FIDE Online Chess Olympiad is a worldwide online event where hundreds of participants from more than 100 different national teams will compete for the gold. The event will run from August 20 to September 15 on the Chess.com server. You ...
The 2021 FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship is nearing a dramatic conclusion, with the semifinal and finals coming later this week (July 1-3). Back in February, we shared a list of the five Best Female Chess Players Of All Time, and t...
Competitive chess is a very demanding activity. It requires players to constantly keep the highest level of concentration, stay calm under the pressure and be creative throughout the whole fight. Unsurprisingly, each game has its own story. I have...
Chess.com's newest Coach of the Month is NM James Canty III! Canty is a familiar face on Chess.com and Twitch. Whether he's enriching Arena Kings with his witty and insightful commentary or flexing his sharp tactical skills on stream, the "Jedi ma...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda of Poland won the 2021 FIDE World Cup. He defeated GM Sergey Karjakin in the final by a score of 1½-½ after winning their second game. That moment when, after @SergeyKaryakin, it's @MagnusCarlsen himself who...
Chess Played Quick is Chess.com's series of monthly events where top chess streamers do live speed runs using one of Chess.com's features. This month's event, Chess Played Quick Bullet Edition, starts on June 28 at 10 a.m. PT/19:00 CEST. During ...
The 2020-21 FIDE Candidates Tournament holds the dubious distinction of being the longest tournament in chess history. It spanned 14 months, yet just 14 rounds were played. While we are all well aware of the reasons for that and we applaud the pla...
After the 2020 hiatus, the Grand Chess Tour returns in 2021 with a regular schedule of events. There will be two classical time control events and three rapid/blitz combos. The venues are familiar, only Bucharest switched with Zagreb and hosted th...
Yes, this is the exact question I hear a lot from my less experienced students: "What is better: castling kingside (0-0) or queenside (0-0-0)?" Just like in the case with most of the general chess questions, the answer is "it depends." Castling ...
Hey, chess lovers! We are well into June already, which means it's high time to review last month's developments, as well as the latest numbers from our Fairplay and Support teams. Let's dive into May 2021... Web Many more UI and fu...
The Blitzcoin Invitational presented by The Charlotte Chess Center and Chess.com is an event where top US Chess players 25 years old and under will compete for their share of one Bitcoin. The prized Bitcoin is generously provided by one of Daniel ...
Whenever I watch grandmasters playing chess, there's one thing that constantly crosses my mind: "What in the world is going on here?" It's true. My shallow comprehension of chess theory deprives me of appreciating this beautiful game to its full...
Tournament Arc 2 is an event featuring YouTubers from the Anime community and Fighting Games players competing for their share of a $10,000 total prize fund. The event will run July 16 to 18 and 22 to 25, starting at 5 p.m. PT/02:00 CEST. The even...
CryptoChamps powered by Coinbase is a tournament featuring star personalities from the world of cryptocurrencies. The event will happen on June 12 and 13, starting at 10 a.m. Pacific/19:00 CEST. The total prize fund will be $25,000 and participant...
Fans have waited three years for the 2021 FIDE World Championship of Chess, which will feature World Champion Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. The unusual waiting period caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened chess fans' expectati...
The saying, "No good deed goes unpunished" is as old as time. In the early 14th century, Dante Alighieri used a very similar phrase in "The Divine Comedy." I don't know about you, but I totally hate it! In our early childhood, we learn from variou...
The 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid was an online competition for top junior chess players. The event ran from June 7 through October 19 and featured a total prize fund of $35,000 for the competition. For the seco...
FM Anna-Maja Kazarian defeated WFM Alessia Santeramo and collected her second crown during February's Winner Stays. Kazarian is now only one win away from ascending to the Pantheon. Chess.com's Vice President of Engineering Josh defeated his cow...
This article was written by Bill Chen, an expert poker and chess player working at Susquehanna International Group (SIG), and is sponsored by SIG in conjunction with their support of the 2021 Bullet Chess Championship. I am a World Series of Pok...
Chess Done Quick is the new series of monthly events for streamers. Every month, top streamers will create new accounts and do a live speedrun using one of Chess.com's features. On May 31 at 12 p.m. Pacific/21:00 Central European the event ...
It never ceases to amaze me how a player of the magnitude of GM Alexander Tolush can be so often glossed over, especially when one considers not only his innate ability and bold compelling style as a chess player but also his profound effect as a ...
Today, 12th world chess champion Anatoly Karpov turns 70 years old! The Russian legend earned the title in 1975 as the 11th world chess champion, Bobby Fischer, did not agree to the terms for a new match. In the next decade, Karpov showed the worl...
